President O-Blame-a is at it again. Did you hear him say, “I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they’ve already racked up through the laws that they passed” on New Years night in relation to Debt Ceiling negotiations. He’s not going to try [...]
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I just finished reading The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins and am now halfway through the sequel. Something about it alarms me. I’ll explain in a moment. For those who haven’t read it, The Hunger Games take place in a post-America, America called Panem. The country consists of a Capitol and 12 Districts. There was [...]
I want to bring two seemingly unrelated things together today under one umbrella. Unfortunately, that umbrella is: economic ignorance. I’ve stated multiple times in the past, even though it should completely go without saying at this point, that President Obama is economically illiterate. He has absolutely no clue how wealth is created, how jobs are [...]
People have commented on President Obama’s statement about ATMs and other automation displacing workers (a falsehood, as the number of banks and bank tellers has grown since the introduction of ATMs in the ’70s). What disturbs me about this is different than what most are saying about it (see this at Hot Air, and this [...]
John Hinderacker does a masterful job of commenting on Pres. Obama’s incredibly bad budget speech in his Power Line post: “Obama Channels Ted Kennedy” (the Kennedy reference is a comparison of Obama’s characterization of Ryan’s plan with Kennedy’s demagoguery of Clarence Thomas). There’s one thing John didn’t comment on that got my attention. In talking [...]
It must be great to be a Democrat. Never tied to facts. Never having to confront inconsistencies in your logic. Able to shift language to mean whatever you want. Able to ignore history… I was listening to Michael Medved yesterday and a liberal came on the show and he was defending Obama as a good [...]
Why is the baseline for the new budget the budget that included the (failed) stimulus? I could be wrong, but I thought that was a one-off. Wasn’t it sold that way? The Democrats were going to plow some $800 billion into the economy and everything would turn around, then we could get back to normal. [...]
I can’t tell you how sick I am of people talking about “worker’s rights” in connection to public employees unions. Taking away those “worker’s rights” is like taking away a bully’s “right” to punch you in the face with your own fist as he steals your lunch money. “Worker” is a word being used to [...]
I teach social studies to students in the class of 2051 a Prescott High School. After my last class one afternoon a few of the students stayed behind. It was a small group, five of my best students; kids with a little fire in their eyes who read beyond the assigned class work, which I [...]
More misrepresentations and economic ignorance from the blamer-in-chief
The president is at it again. Misrepresentation and economic ignorance… Taking advantage of the ignorance of his diehard followers. His subject is now demonizing oil companies by decrying the “subsidies” they are given. This is a complete misrepresentation deliberately done to anger people. “Subsidies” are generally (and rightly) thought of as checks written to various [...]